The Thirst Beneath Hollow Vale

Beneath the walls of an ancient manor, something has been waiting. When she arrives, it feels less like chance and more like recognition- like the house itself has been holding its breath for her. The estate is vast, decaying, and steeped in a history no one speaks aloud. But it is not the manor alone that watches her. Something older moves within it. Something that remembers. He has spent centuries buried in silence and guilt, bound not only to the manor but to what he has become within it. A vampire shaped as much by regret as by hunger, he has long since stopped believing in release, until she arrives, unsettling the fragile order he has built from his own ruin. As the boundaries between past and present begin to blur, the connection between them deepens into something neither fully understands. Love becomes entangled with obsession. Grief becomes indistinguishable from devotion. And beneath it all, a question that refuses to fade: was she ever truly free to choose, or was she always meant to come home? In this gothic horror romance, the manor keeps its secrets close, the dead refuse to rest, and even the broken are forced to decide what they are willing to become for love- and what they must finally let go.

Pages: 617, Paperback, Independently published